The Unfortunate Indian: A Novel Based on History

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The Unfortunate Indian’ is a novel presented by fictional characters on historical reality in thirty chapters of a single but zigzag, multifaceted and multi-coloured story. It’s a revelation of the human struggle in progression for living a moralistic life of higher human values in the realistic circumstances of utter poverty, social dislocation and hostile environment. Across the interactions of the featured characters, the novel has rendered itself to be reflective of a new appraisal of the society, polity, economy, culture, customs, beliefs and ways of life of the Indian people expressly since the partition of the country parallel with the transfer of power from Britain to India and Pakistan. The partition trauma, the plight of the refugees, their struggle for survival in utter wretchedness, women trafficking and the stories how refugee girls in hundreds ended in becoming sex-workers in brothels have been depicted in the activities and dialogues of the characters of the novel. Vivid descriptions are there of the very realistic nature of the lives of monks, churchmen, so-called god-men, peasants, politicians, physicians, teachers, housewives and historians acted by the featured characters in different stages of the novel. There are chapters to deal with the bright as well as the dark side of Indian culture and tradition from the past to the present. As a whole, the novel is reflective of a revisiting and revaluation of Indian history, colonial administration, nationalist movement, Indian intellectuals, foreign relations, post-independence social conditions and way of life in terms of overall human values, culture, reason, humanism and progressivism.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sailen Debnath

Sailen Debnath, M.A., Ph.D., Associate Professor and Head of the Department of History, Alipurduar College, has been engrossed in the studies of the history of ideas and intellectual history of India and Europe as well as of the history of Bengal and North Bengal for the last twenty-five years. He has authored pioneering books namely (1) 'The Meanings of Hindu Gods, Goddesses and Myths', (Rupa & Co, New Delhi.); (2) ‘Secularism: Western and lndian’, (Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi); (3) ‘Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: His Philosophy, Political Thought and Contribution’ (Abhijeet Publications, New Delhi); (4) ‘Human Rights in the Context of Caste, Class and Gender in India’ (Abhijeet Publications, New Delhi); (5) ‘The Dooars in Historical Transition’, (NL Publications); (6) ‘Essays on Cultural History of North Bengal’, (NL Publications), (7) ‘West Bengal in Doldrums’, (NL Publications), including an edited book, ‘Social and Political Tensions in North Bengal Since 1947’.

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Title
The Unfortunate Indian: A Novel Based on History
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Edition
1st. ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9789385161551
Length
x+442p., 22cm.
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